New comment by ahesford on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27803#issuecomment-760208756

Comment:
Freedesktop requirements for systemd should not be the governing standard here. It also seems to me that R is doing the wrong thing by demanding that `/etc/localtime` be a symlink and reading the target to determine a timezone. For example, I have `/etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York`, but there are a ton of equivalent time zones in `/usr/share/zoneinfo`; for example, `US/Eastern`, `EST5EDT`.

This doesn't mean that `/usr/share/zoneinfo` shouldn't be populated in the masterdir, but are there compelling reasons beyond R breaking because it makes fragile assumptions? R can determine zone offset programmatically or, in the shell, invoke `date +"%z"` or `date "+%Z"` to more reliably grab the information.